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Monday, 21 March 2016

Fibre and Thread Sketching - week 8

GREEN

So
many possibilities with green; firstI
thought of doing a green man, but knowing me I would of spent way longer than
I wanted to on him :). So I decided to
go off on a literal tangent and do a golf green.. I will confess I pretty much copied the design from clip art. Just a quick note here.. I don't agree with copying and don't do it (not counting ancient rock art / historic designs which I am irresistibly drawn to incorporating into my work.. and when I asked an artist friend if I could do a felt version of one of her beautiful paintings). So even though it's from clip art, freely available for anyone's use.. I'm still not entirely comfortable about this piece. But I don't plan to sell it, it was made just as an exercise in play.

First
I copied it in pencil..

Cutting
out the elements to use as templates..

for
cutting felt to shape

Using
pins and a felting needle to temporarily fix the trees in place ..

1 comment:

About the copying thing - it's very hard to be original as so many things have already been done. Even when you create a design that emerges straight from your imagination, you can bet that other artists have come up with similar ideas because we are all mostly subjected to common influences.

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Hi Im Deborah - Im a feltmaker & fibre fanatic. I love wetfelting! I enjoy felting bags, wearables, things for the home, pretty much everything to be honest.. and that's one of the things I love about felt, its' versatility!
I'm 42 years old and live in the heart of England with my wonderful husband, our two great kids and a sweet little cocker spaniel.